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Petition subject: Property

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855812

Date of creation: 1706-09-28

Petition location: Tiverton

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee

Selected signatures:

1. James Church
2. Nebec Manchester
3. James Willcox
4. John Burgess
5. Samuel Church
6. Jobe David
7. Moses Queaquin
8. John Cockaway
9. Thomas Sysene
10. Sam Queaquin

Actions taken on dates: 1706-11-16,1706-11-19

Legislative action: Received and read and committed in the House on November 16, 1706 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on November 19, 1706

Total signatures: 10

Legislative action summary: Received, read, committed, sent, received, read, concurred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 10

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: we the subscrib[ers], [males of color]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Native American tribe: Mashpee

Acknowledgements: Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-5105612), Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University, Institutional Development Initiative at Harvard University, and Harvard University Library.

Additional archivist notes: Rhode Island, James Wilcox, settlement, Daniel Wilcox, lands, schools, education, meeting houses, winter, exchange, sale, sell, appointments, Nathaniel Paine, Benjamin Church, Captain Seth Arnold, William Fobes, Joseph Dudley, Isaac Addington, Thomas Oakes

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 31, pages 15-15a